From Himself And Team, Tauscher Eyes Improvement

There were essentially two reasons behind Mark Tauscher's decision to re-sign with the Green Bay Packers this offseason.

The 32-year-old veteran right tackle, a Wisconsin native who was originally drafted by the Packers back in 2000, wants to play his entire career here, and he wants to finish that career on a winning team.

"When you're getting older, you always want to have a chance to win," Tauscher said. "This team, ... we came up short last year. But with the core guys we have, this team has unlimited potential."

That's a bold statement, but Tauscher's perspective is a broad one, having been a key member of Green Bay squads that came within mere overtime periods of possible trips to the NFC Championship (2003) and Super Bowl (2007) and others that fell to records of 4-12 (2005) and 6-10 (2008).

The fact that the Packers surged from a 4-4 start to go 7-1 in the second half of 2009 and make the playoffs certainly fuels Tauscher's optimism. What h..